Date: 1636
"So some have looked over their hearts by signs at one time, and have to their thinking found nothing but hypocrisy, unbelief, hardness, self-seeking; but not long after, examining their hearts again by the same signs, they have espied the image of God drawn fairly upon the table of their hearts."
preview | full record— Goodwin, Thomas (1600-1680)
Date: 1639
"[T]he onely rule of our conscience, is the Law of God written in our hearts."
preview | full record— Ames, William (1576-1633)
Date: 1639
"There are some principles so cleare, and written in the hearts of all men, that they cannot erre to obey and practise them."
preview | full record— Ames, William (1576-1633)
Date: 1639
"[T]he Law of Nature" of "the Law of God ... is naturally written in the hearts of all men."
preview | full record— Ames, William (1576-1633)
Date: MS. 1640, 1650
"[T]here is no doubt, if the true doctrine concerning the law of nature, and the properties of a body politic, and the nature of law in general, were perspicuously set down, and taught in the Universities, but that young men, who come thither void of prejudice, and whose minds are yet as white pa...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: MS. 1640, 1650
"For certainly men are not otherwise so unequal in capacity as the evidence is unequal of what is taught by the mathematicians, and what is commonly discoursed of in other books: and therefore if the minds of men were all of white paper, they would almost equally be disposed to acknowledge whatso...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1644, 1647
False judgments stick in the memory and are difficult to erase
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1646
"For by naturall birth, all men are equally and alike borne to like propriety, liberty, and freedome, and as we are delivered of God by the hand of nature into this world, every one with a naturall, innate freedome and propriety (as it were writ in the table of every mans heart, never to be oblit...
preview | full record— Overton, Richard (fl. 1640-1663)
Date: 1647
"it is a firme Law and radicall principle in Nature engraven in the tables of the heart by the finger of God in creation for every living moving thing, wherein there is a breadth of life to defend, preserve, award, and deliver it selfe from all things hurtfull, destructive and obnoctious thereto ...
preview | full record— Overton, Richard (fl. 1640-1663)
Date: 1649
"But when once the Earth becomes a Common Treasury again, as it must, for all the Prophesies of Scriptures and Reason are Circled here in this Community, and mankind must have the Law of Righteousnesse once more writ in his heart, and all must be made of one heart, and one mind."
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